August Wilt

A series of charts showing the cash flow into and out of four types of mutual funds.

Updated Oct. 4, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Fund of Information

Investors added a net $1.9 billion to stock funds in August, compared with a $9.37 billion inflow a month earlier, according to the Investment Company Institute. The average fund cash hoard was 4.3% of assets, up from a revised 4.2% in July. For the week ended Wednesday equity funds had net outflows of $2.7 million, according to AMG Data Services (www.amgdata.com). Money funds had outflows of $24 billion. Taxable bond funds had net inflows of $312 million, and municipal funds had inflows of $89...